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by wycats 14y ago
> Based on the comments, it looks like people are still waiting on handwritten thank-you notes and stickers which the Kickstarter project says were to be delivered in June/July 2012. I have been furiously writing them over the past few
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Most of the interesting parts of Tokaido are in tokaido-bootstrap, muxr, tokaido-dns, and tokaido-build. They will be integrated into Tokaido.app in the next few days.
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Tokaido is not dead. It's taken longer than I expected, but I've been wrapping up the requirements for the MVP over the past few weeks [1][2][3] and hope to integrate the code I've been writing into the UI in the next few days. I initially
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Ember.js Announces 1.0 API Freeze(emberjs.com)
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As I said, the class feature in ES6 was intentionally pared down to achieve consensus. I hope that something will make it into ES7. Browsers do not need to wait for a spec to be fully finalized before starting to implement features. Firefox
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They also add class-side inheritance. This allows the constructor to inherit its properties from a parent constructor: class Class {} Class.hello = "hello"; class SubClass extends Class {} SubClass.hello // "hello" Thi
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> BTW: does anybody know why they didn't put in the specs the Executable Class Body thing? It's the coolest part of Coffee-script, and it's the only real meta-programming style for class (IMHO). In an effort to get a class syntax into t
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Microsoft has a representative on TC39 (Luke Hoban) who is extremely active. In fact, I usually find that my thoughts on some new feature closely align with his. Because Microsoft has bet on JavaScript heavily for Windows 8 apps (at least f
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It's not even clear how to fully implement things like class-side inheritance in a transpiler. The CoffeeScript implementation uses a definition-time copy of properties, which is probably good enough for many cases, but not all. That said,
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The goal of the Map feature is to create a primitive to JavaScript that does not exist today and cannot be efficiently emulated. In particular, it allows the use of arbitrary, non-string keys. Objects (commonly used as Maps) can have only S
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The current proposals avoid this problem by requiring that objects held by weak references can only be observably collected between turns of the event loop. In short: whenever a WeakReference is dereferenced, a temporary strong reference to
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WeakMaps are useful for storing auxiliary information without having to pollute third-party objects and without impacting the ability to collect those objects. For example, jQuery stores information on a unique, generated key on DOM nodes.
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Proper tail calls are an approved ES6 feature: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proper_tail_c... Sets are unordered: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:simple_maps_a...
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The good news is that the Rails project has a robust security process, and because we handle IP spoofing, there's a place to discuss this vulnerability. (See http://rubyonrails.org/security ; as a member of the security list, I can verify
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If you're in the mood to hand-roll your own stack and figure out, on your own, how to integrate the pieces, you are not the target market for this project. This project aims to provide the integrated development experience of Rails targeted
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Good promises libraries (like Q and my RSVP.js: https://github.com/tildeio/rsvp.js ) absolutely do support this. Check out https://github.com/domenic/promise-tests/blob/master/lib/tes... for the tests for this behavior, which most promis
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Also has the benefit of being compatible with the no-quotes version in ES5 browsers.
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2) The avoidance of C-corps has to do with double taxation and high-marginal rates on the second level of taxation. So, again, this analysis is flawed. The absence of C-corps is evidence that the tax rate/s in fact makes
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Corrupted characters in a MySQL database is unfortunately quite common. The user fix will thus propagate the corruption without this fix.
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`postMessage` is faster than `setTimeout` but is unreliable. For example, it's synchronous in IE8. I may add support for `postMessage`, but for now I support "new and reliable" and "old and reliable".
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jQuery.Deferred: Too coupled to jQuery, doesn't chain, not async Q: Too monolithic promise-stream: inadequate chaining support and node-specific when.js: synchronous delivery, much larger API surface area than Promises/A For what it's worth
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The suite I used for this project has a primary suite and a series of extensions that I personally thought was a very good articulation of the currently accepted API, even such as it is. Currently, only RSVP and Q pass the entire suite.
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My goal was to have a small, lightweight promises implementation that could be easily embedded in other browser-based libraries. I specifically wanted a very small API surface area, essentially limited to the surface area described by the P
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It doesn't.
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we get classes _and_ modules _and_ typed objects There aren't "typed objects". There is a new library for working with binary data efficiently. Classes and modules serve different purposes. Classes provide syntactic sugar for prototypal i
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Objects can only have String keys. Maps and Sets can have arbitrary object keys.
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It's actually somewhat out of character for the US too. The first time I heard about it, it didn't seem real to me.
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I don't understand why everyone's calling this "cheating" when HN exists to enable this sort of behavior from the YC elite. Another incubator sets up a system to replicate YC's influence on the front page and we all decry cheating. Who chea
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I don't agree, and I explain why in the OP. Unless Microsoft perfectly handles scrolling/click in their implementation, this solution won't work.
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If this was true, I'd expect Mozilla to be pushing this forward. Instead, we have Apple's native scroll solution and Microsoft's Pointer API. Neither is perfect, but frankly Mozilla is not leading on this. Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy giv

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